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stickig

stuffy

adjective SHTIK-ikh Rare
Descriptions & Qualities Conditions

Also means

airless

Usage Note

stickig describes air that is stale and oppressive from lack of ventilation, from ersticken (to suffocate), as in eine stickige Luft (stuffy air). It is the opposite of a fresh, airy room.

Examples

"Im überfüllten Abteil wurde es bald stickig und heiß."

Natural Translation

In the crowded compartment it soon became stuffy and hot.

Literal Translation

In-the overcrowded compartment became it soon stuffy and hot.

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